Thesis (doctoral)--Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-367).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2008. / Title from document title page.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the primary global organization responsible for implementing rules against doping in sport. A central element of its mission is the requirement that elite athletes submit their whereabouts information for every day of the year to their relevant Anti-Doping Organization (ADO), in order to facilitate no advance notice out-of-competition doping testing. These requirements have attracted considerable criticism, including the claim that they invade elite athlete privacy in a legally or ethically unacceptable manner. The validity of these claims is threatened by the contestedness of the concept of privacy, which arises from the many different uses to which the concept is put, including in legal and philosophical contexts. Resolving this conceptual confusion requires taking an explicit position on various questions of philosophical methodology, themselves subject to contention. As an alternative to such abstraction, and particularly given the need for a philosophically defensible yet pragmatic policy application, I argue that privacy is best conceived of as the absence of certain contextually relevant harms to the person, which arise in relation to such underlying normative values as fairness between competing athletes. In the specific context of elite athlete whereabouts requirements, I maintain that privacy concerns arise principally in relation to surveillance, intrusion, and breaches of confidence. Of these, the first and second face legal difficulties in the UK, on the basis of European legislation concerning human rights and maximum working time. Ethical problems also arise due to WADAs undifferentiated application of the whereabouts requirements, which ignores the heterogeneity of different types of sports and their respective vulnerabilities to doping. I argue that WADAs whereabouts requirements ought therefore to be revised to (a) ensure that they do not conflict with established law, and (b) respect the very different sets of circumstances entailed by the heteroge­neous world of elite sports.

The present study described the daily moods of male bodybuilders who self-administered large doses of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AS) through a full cycle of steroid use. Male bodybuilders (N = 13) who had been self-administering AS for 2.5 to 12 years served as subjects and participated in a 14 to 16 week experience sampling procedure wherein brief mood questionnaires were filled out twice daily. / Findings revealed that 11 of the 13 subjects experienced self-reported mood changes in association with AS use. In particular, 2 subjects (subjects 4 & 11) experienced quite dramatic changes in mood. It is concluded that there is much variability with regards to the psychological effects that humans may display in association with AS use. / Data are discussed in terms of the effects that AS use may have on mental health.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-59).

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El objetivo principal de esta tesis fue el de realizar una validación y caracterización de las posibles variables que pueden afectar la metodología empleada para identificar las isoformas presentes en algunas de las especies de EPO (uEPO, rEPO alfa, rEPO beta y el NESP) tras su identificación mediante la técnica de IEF e inmunodetección

Los agentes anabolizantes prohibidos por la Comisión Médica del Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) deben estar ausentes en las muestras de orina objeto de análisis. El límite de detección está condicionado por la sensibilidad del instrumento y la relación señal/ruido debida al material biológico coextraído junto con los analitos de interés. Las nuevas exigencias de sensibilidad del COI como la detección de nuevas sustancias utilizadas en dosis sensiblemente inferiores, obliga al replanteamiento de la estrategia analítica utilizada. El objetivo general de esta tesis es: desarrollar nuevas técnicas analíticas de alta sensibilidad para la detección de esteroides y otros anabolizantes en orina humana mediante: 1.- Estudio de la cromatografía liquida capilar para la cuantificación de las concentraciones de testosterona y epitestosterona en orina humana. 2.- Estudio de la purificación de la muestra previa al análisis instrumental. - Estudio del uso de la cormatografía de inmunoafinidad (IAC) en la purificación selectiva dela muestra. - Desarrollo de procedimientos mediante cromatografía líquida de alta resolución para la purificación de fracciones en los análisis de confirmación. 3.- Incremento de la sensibilidad en el análisis instrumental. - Estudio de la formación de tert-butildimetilsilil derivados como alternativa a los trimestilsilil derivados habitualmente utilizados. - Estudio de la utilización de nueva instrumentación basada en la espectrometría de masas de trampa de iones y en tándem (MS/MS) para alcanzar la sensibilidad y selectividad requerida por los nuevos estánderes impuestos por las organizaciones internacionales del área de la salud, en particular en el deporte.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2007. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.